archiving publications digitally

[Leon]

There are quite a few collectors, me included, who study the history of the hobby. David Karthman (hey David) is the king of hobby history on this forum. .FWIW, digitizing everything would be a monumental project. Here are a few links to some hobby letters from early on..

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=207878&page=3

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?p=1528717

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Originally Posted by topcat61

So I pay for newspapers.com, and I have no problem with that since the money I give them goes to upkeep of the site and finding and digitizing new papers.

I don't think I'd have an issue with paying for hobby information as well. We could always ask, and some journals from the 40's through the 70's such as Burdick's Card Collectors Bulletin and American Card Catalog probably didn't get their copyrights renewed if they had them at all -they might actually be in the public domain?

I think the more you as a collector can learn, the better off you'll be. I don't mince words when I say that I got a real crappy education, but card collecting and net54 has really helped reverse that. I thought maybe this idea would help other collectors too particularly since there are swaths of missing hobby history. Guys like Lionel Carter is one of the biggest reasons why I'm a writer today.